People in Nashville cowrite songs. Generally, you meet up with someone
at 11AM, sometimes at your house, sometimes in a writers room on Music
Row, and you get amped up on coffee together. With the coffee’s help you
do one of two things: One, you get to talking about life, about what’s
going on in your life, and how those goings-on have got you to thinking
about this one thing, and how this thing seems song-worthy. Or, two, you
get to talking about song ideas you have, and if you’re me, you figure
out if you can connect to any of those ideas personally, whether it be
through your own personal life, your sense of humor, or your sense of
empathy. A lot of songwriters talk about how cowriting is like getting
into a room with another person, sometimes a stranger, and pulling your
pants down.

On the Sky Captains of Industry, working together, and the future prospects of the rest of your heart. -by Ryan Morgan

Like all songwriters, I have a pathological incapability for listening
to other people’s music without thinking about how it was written. This
manifests itself in a lot of different ways - I always try to guess the
rhyme after the first lyric in a verse, for example, or I think “Hmmm, I
wanna use that chord progression” instead of just appreciating it. In a
recent interview with Conan O’Brien, Jack White says...